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SPML is an XML-based provisioning standard developed within OASIS, which defines a standard language for exchanging provisioning messages. These messages can be requests to add, modify, or delete user accounts, enable or disable access, grant or revoke access rights, change passwords, and all other types of provisioning tasks. By using SPML, heterogeneous systems can easily participate in provisioning business processes without needing complex and expensive integration.
SPML is a valuable tool for the enterprise to use to ensure that all of its various systems that need to participate in provisioning business processes can do so automatically. It can be used to seamlessly integrate with the other systems in the enterprise, and particularly with the identity management and workflow tool that implement and control the business provisioning processes.
In addition, SPML is extremely useful to federated networks, because it allows the enterprises participating in the federation to exchange provisioning messages via the common SPML language using web services, instead of needing to directly integrate their disparate systems. SPML can enable the federation to grow as more members join without imposing any integration burden on the existing participants.
STTG has done a significant amount of work with the SPML protocol and has developed an extensive SPML toolkit. We can leverage this with our experience with SPML to quickly and easily build federated provisioning solutions for your business and your partners.
The diagram below indicates how SPML can be used to enable enterprises to easily exchange provisioning messages.
Read more about SPML on the OASIS Provisioning Services Technical Committee website.
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